[Serious] The Story

[Pat Mustard]

Hi Vicky,

A couple of points:

1)  What OT passage are you appealing to for the "Suffering Servant"?

2) Outside of Nero's persecution of Christians in the 60s, what historical evidence can you present for any Empire-wide persecutions of Christians during the 1st century?

Vicky can't even point to a Neroan persecution, because a) there is no evidence for one and b) the cults which would later be christian were still fully jewish. The first (and only non local) persecution of christians was in the time of Diocletian and even he quickly abandoned it as counter productive.

To see Roman religious persecution on a sustained, widespread and genocidal scale one has to wait until the christian emperors.